When attempting to run the application. vncviewer it generates: Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found I emerged this package using the commmand emerge -va tightvnc kernel generated by genkernel version -> x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 Currently I also use 'hal' and the hald is running. My make.conf file below CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apm bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cdr css cxx dbus dga dri dvb dvd dvdr encode exif flac gif gimp glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gps gtk hal ieee1394 imlib ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k libgda libnotify libsamplerate libwww lzo mad mime mng mono mozilla mp3 mpi mplayer msn musepack mysql mysqli nas ncurses networkmanager nptl nsplugin ogg openal opengl pcmcia pdf php perl png python quicktime radius raw rdesktop readline recode rss ruby samba sdl sharedext sharedmem smp snmp soap sockets speex spell sqlite3 ssl svg svga syslog szip tcl threads tiff truetype unicode usb vcd videos vnc vorbis wavpack wifi x264 xml xpm xv xvid zlib mmx sse sse2" MAKEOPTS="-j3" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ " SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" There were no generated errors during compilation or installation. No other program is generating this error. For the moment i am using GNOME version 2.24.3 I have not found anything pertaining to this error for dmesg, although I could include that if necessary I am frustrated by this error none of my searches have yielded an answer. Although I am relatively new to Linux and Gentoo, I am a smart guy and so far have been able to find solutions to ALL the other issues I have had to date. I need vncviewer to work. I am not a computer novice, I program successfully for several platforms etc. My hope is that my posting contains enough data for a resolution and that this is an appropriate posting. I have done all the obvious things, i.e. emerge --sync emerge --deep --update --newuse world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild env-update etc, etc, Please if any additional information is needed, please let me know. This is my first post here, do not murder me!!!!! Sincerely, G Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: glapglnx ~ # vncviewer Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found Actual Results: glapglnx ~ # vncviewer Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found Expected Results: vncviewer works the same as on Ubuntu, at least that is my presumption
glapglnx ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T5600_@_1.83GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus dga dri dvb dvd dvdr encode exif flac fortran gdbm gif gimp glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k libgda libnotify libsamplerate libwww lzo mad mime mmx mng mono mozilla mp3 mpi mplayer msn mudflap multilib musepack mysql mysqli nas ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl php png pppd python quicktime radius raw rdesktop readline recode reflection rss ruby samba sdl session sharedext sharedmem smp snmp soap sockets speex spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs syslog szip tcl tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vcd videos vnc vorbis wavpack wifi x264 xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Hi, seems like there's a missing dependency in the ebuild. I got a workaround for this: either enable the "server" USE flag for tightvnc and re-emerge (this seems to pull in the missing font) or install the font manually: Example command line: $> USE='server' emerge -av tightvnc or $> emerge -av --oneshot font-misc-misc In both cases: restart the X-server after emerging Hope this helps until the ebuild is fixed (if that's the true source of the problem). Bye Christoph
(In reply to comment #2) > $> emerge -av --oneshot font-misc-misc This workaround saved my day. I access some Windows applications at my job when working from home. My home terminal is Gentoo and the work-from-remote setup involves SSH (for plain X applications) and Citrix (for the Windows applications, which have been unaccessible for a couple of days because of this issue). Well, it's back to work then .. and thanks for the workaround!
Fixed, thanks.
